Bloomsbury
Waking up early, I went down to the local Pret a Manger for a pastel de nata and a flat white while waiting for the day to break and the park gates to open. Then followed nine kilometres of progressive-pace running, first through Bloomsbury and then into Regent’s Park.
Seeing the statue The Girl and the Fox, I of course had to stop for a photo, just as I did when the sun lit up the misty meadows. Every new run in London truly adds another layer to its psychogeography.
Back at the hotel, I took a quick shower before heading out again, this time in the company of my dad, as we walked back to the parks and through the lovely streets of Marylebone and Fitzrovia, passing both SOAS and UCL with all their academic routes not taken. Unfortunately, time soon caught up with us, so we had to return to the hotel and make our way to Heathrow where, luckily, check-in was a breeze – leaving us just enough time for Eggs Royale at Uncle Gordon’s “Plane Food,” as tradition demands.
A few hours later, I was suddenly at Savoy in Malmö with my dear friend Gabriel, drinking a pint of Budweiser Budvar and being swept away again in flashbacks and overlapping timelines – yet also conversations about the future and AI, or more specifically, what embodied experiences are lost if one accepts the Wittgensteinian axiom that the limits of my language are the limits of my world.
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